Hulu’s, The English Teacher I added to our que. Sounded promising from the trailer.
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I don’t think that he ever thought they were a couple.
I watched one and a half episodes.
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Why would I keep watching something I found mean-spirited?
I’m not going to watch an entire show before deciding if I like something.
There are too many shows out there that might be to my taste that I would rather try to find to watch.
Also.
Since when do you get to say when someone else is entitled to form an opinion?
I don’t recall saying any such thing. I and other users merely pointed out that there was a lot more going on than what you personally seem to have taken away from a mere 1.5 episodes.
You are entitled to form your opinions on anything for all I care, whether they are based on reality or your feelings — just like those who watched the entire show are entitled to theirs.
It’s just an opinion, after all.
I’m watching Silent Witness on BritBox. Just finished season 1 and now watching season 2.
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We tried to start Season 1 last night. It said video not available for Season 1’s episode 1, 2 and 3. It might be a Canadian BritBox issue.
I mentioned to my husband today that Shogun swept the Emmy’s last night. He said he’d been wanting to see it. WM is sold out and we don’t do Amazon. Then I checked reviews. So is this a Japanese language series with English sub titles or what? Just asking.
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I thought it was a remake of the 1970s Shogun.
Here’s the trailer.
American producers and directors, mostly Japanese across and dialogue.
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I just started it on Hulu. And, yes, it’s in Japanese, with English subtitles.
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That should have been Actors.
Finished Chimp Crazy. The selfishness, misplaced affection, and utter narcissism of these self-professed “animal lovers” was infuriating to watch. Not a fan of the director, either, who seemed to care far more about getting The Story than the animals’ welfare, or providing some background info on what these folks were lacking to think a primate dressed up like a baby and forever kept like a child that never grows up could fill the void. Perhaps no surprise to anyone who’s watched the equally dismaying Tiger King.
Peeps be cray, and I have a lot more sympathy for the fine folks at PETA now 
A couple of Curb epis to cleanse our brains.
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Currently watching Season 9 of Perry Mason (1965-66) on Prime. It was really a classy, entertaining show. The continuity of the main characters – Perry, Della, Paul, and Burger – surely helped a lot.
The formula worked. Mr. Mason taking a deep breath before making an important pronouncement; Miss Street always seeming too good for Perry; Paul Drake faithfully doing his job; and Hamilton Burger never failing to be incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.
We’re happily watching Moonflower Murders and Van der Valk. Thanks to those who recommended Slow Horses - liking that too. Will also try English Teacher since we were both English majors, and my husband was an English teacher for a few years.
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The remake/prequel with Matthew Rhys was so good. Very sad it got cancelled.
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Just thought I’d weigh in briefly on Baby Reindeer with respect to this conversation between you. @Rooster and @linguafood:
I watched all of it. It is a rough watch (including for its depiction of the Fringe). I love Jessica Gunning and think she turned in a marvellous and sympathetic performance, which is an incredible feat for this role.
That said: Richard Gadd took considerably less care to protect the real person (Fiona Harvey) behind the character from being doxxed. By quoting her texts and tweets verbatim, she was found within days of the release of the show. How this made it past Netflix legal is still beyond me (and many others who look at this sort of thing). Even if a stalker, she deserved this protection. I mean, Gadd did everything is his power to protect his rapist, the television producer and a man, whereas this woman is left to exposure. (And yes, I know Richard Osman says “everyone” knows who the producer is, but that’s the “everyone” who are part of a tight television world in the UK.)
This is the problematic bit imho. Otherwise, it’s a well performed programme that is deeply stressful to watch, and the episode with the sexual assault really horrible (not badly done, but emotionally upsetting-- much like the hotel room episode of Douglas is Cancelled was).
It is also worth thinking about how gender and class play into Gadd’s differing treatment of each character, as well as what shaped his own responses to the kinds of violence they delivered.
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With the current political environment, I think it is in poor taste for Netflix to be producing anything that makes single women without children look unhinged.
To give the same show awards, when a lawsuit is under way? Even worse.
The thing is, this is a story.
None of this was proven in court.
Anyone could have their name dragged through the mud like this.
I suppose that is why I don’t have much empathy for the story teller.
But, whatever, viewers like what they like.
- The show was crafted for Netflix well before “childless cat ladies” became an ostensible slur on one side (I embrace the title with delight, personally).
- Netflix is international and this show is British. We have many issues over here. That’s not one of them. (I mean, apart from the usual.)
- It’s a fair story to tell. It’s just a problem that he did not protect the identity of the person. That said, there’s a question of responsibility to accuracy and verifiable fact in a story based on life rather than an explicit representation of said life.
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